Kara Lawson Quotations

We're looking at this as a must-win. We're looking at this as the only game left and we certainly hope it's the only game left. We don't want to fall into the trap of saying you've got two to win one. ... We know they didn't win 26 games because they laid down and quit, or because they laid down and died. So I expect it to be, if we are to win, our toughest win of the season.

Me and Nicole were real nervous before the game.

One player is not bigger than the team. A some point during the season, we've pretty much had every one of our starters miss time or miss games and we've been fine. It's unfortunate, the timing of some of our injuries but that's the way basketball goes. We have confidence in each other.

I would pray. You talk to any Big 12 coach and they're baffled how to defend her, and they've been facing her all season. . . . She has the ability and mentality to do whatever she wants and will her team to win.

I threw the ball away in the last two minutes, so it was nice to have it in my hands afterward. I've always dreamed of winning a title, and I have the ball in my hands when the game ends.

I think you have to credit their defense in the first half. They really pressured Nicole (Powell) and I and didn't want to let us even catch the ball. And when we came off screens, they were right there.

It gave me a huge comfort level with cameras and speaking in public and knowing what to say and not what to say.

We came out nervous in the first half, we were hesitant, we weren't aggressive. We felt like we had a good run in us for the second half.

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

There is a certain level of satisfaction (getting to the finals), to be one of the two teams left. We're here and now we have the opportunity to win a championship.

This to me is a perfect complement to playing. It allows me to still maintain my workout regimen, stay competitive and learn more about basketball.

This was definitely not something I envisioned myself doing. I was kind of in the right place at the right time.

I wanted to be more of a table-setter in this game, but if I had the looks I was going to take them. I'm a shooter. I'm always looking for my shot.

They've distanced themselves so far this season from the rest of the pack, record-wise, but even talent-wise.

They have a player now in Lindsey Harding that has the ability.

It was their first game without her (Smith), we didn't want to underestimate them. She was a franchise player, I don't know what that would feel like not playing with someone like that all of a sudden.

If you were playing on an opponent's home court in a do-or-die situation, how would you come out and play? So to put a gauge on how bad they're going to want this game and in our house, and how hard they're going to fight to get loose balls. It will probably be at the highest level.

By fouling it took us out of a lot of things that we excel in. We weren't able to get as many transition opportunities that we would have hoped for. We weren't able to get our defense going and turn out some turnovers. I think it hurts our overall team flow, yes, but as individuals it's not too hard to get into the flow. We just have to get better defensively.

You want to kick them while they are down. We know that they are fully capable of coming out here and winning two games. So we are going to have to play very well.